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Does Bill Clinton owe his life to his new vegan diet?

2011 August 21

by sampablokuper

I essentially concluded that I had played Russian roulette, Clinton said, Because even though I had changed my diet some and cut down on the caloric total of my ingestion and cut back on much of the cholesterol in the food I was eating, I still — without any scientific basis to support what I did — was taking in a lot of extra cholesterol without knowing if my body would produce enough of the enzyme to support it, and clearly it didn’t or I wouldn’t have had that blockage. So that’s when I made a decision to really change.

The former president now says he consumes no meat, no dairy, no eggs, almost no oil.

I like the vegetables, the fruits, the beans, the stuff I eat now, Clinton told [Dr. Sanjay] Gupta.